"The biggest hardship I am facing currently is lack of enough land for farming since that is my main source of income."

"My proudest achievement is when I got a sponsor to facilitate my continuity with studies since I was not able to proceed to high school due to lack of fees."

"The proudest achievement in my life is that I am able to afford school fees for my children due to better farming."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life was educating my children. Out of nine, I have managed to see four through secondary schools. Lack of an income has been a major challenge to ensuring that all my children get secondary education. After my husband's death things seem to have gotten much worse."

"The biggest hardship I've faced was the death of my father in 2004.I was still very young and I was left under the care of my old grandmother.I have been struggling since then."

"The biggest hardship I've faced is lack of money to pay school fees for my children.Sometimes they're sent home due to non payment of fees. "

"The biggest hardship have faced in life is paying school fees for my children."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in life is illness. I have been constantly ailing. Faced with constant Malarial and Typhoid attacks, I have been experiencing pains, weakened and psychologically tortured. It has been hard to do my activities or even eat. Tough life experience indeed."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in life is famine. For the past two seasons, I have been harvesting little from the farms. This has been overwhelmed by the family consumption. As a result, we have suffered from frequent hunger and struggled for meals. Life has been a real struggle."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in life is conflict over land. I bought the piece of land that I live on from a neighbour who later sold the same piece of land to another person without our knowledge. We have had a long court case proceedings over the issue but no solution found. We face the challenge of being evicted from here or attacked. This has been so hard for the family."